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Re: Very strange server behavior today
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:38:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Michael Huffman wrote:
> I know it's bad form to reply to your own post... but another idea would be a
> updated user profile... I have a web-site, a blog, I'm on Facebook, Flickr,
> LinkedIn, Picasa, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, AIM, Y!M, gTalk, etc. It would be
> nice to see LUGNET leverage some of the Web 2.0 advancements... For instance,
> maybe display my last 3 'LEGO' tagged photos from my Flickr account; check to
> see if I'm on-line to chat; maybe you want to add me as a friend in Facebook;
> see what I've been Twittering about; or see read I've been blogging about on my
> LEGO blog.
Actually, some work on the user profiles is also very high on my wish (and ToDo)
list. I'm quite an active networker, too, and on all these "modern" platforms
you find - among all that clutter - some desirable features that might be
worthwhile considering for a LUGNET brush-up.
> And this might be harder to implement, but allow me control over what people see
> and how they see it. Again, I go back to blogger-like gadgets, give me a simple
> template that I can manipulate color and the location of displayed information
> on the page... don't allow me to alter the CSS or customize the HTML, just
> something very simple simple.
Hmm, given your other comments I'd want to be careful about color and layout
controls - LUGNET has a very straightforward and established look-and-feel that
we probably want to handle with care. If I look at what some MySpace users do to
their profile pages, it gives me the creeps.
> And a user avatar on the personal page would be nice to have... but please, NO
> custom signatures! To me there's nothing more annoying reading through a forums
> and seeing all the different types of personal signatures... It's one of the
> reasons I think LUGNET is superior to most forums, is the lack of clutter.
Good call! Yes, a profile image would be something many users have been asking
for - it need not necessarily be an avatar image although allowing for free
image selection will undoubtedly end up in a lot of folks uploading minifig or
other avatar images instead of a personal photo. I wouldn't mind that, although
the LUGNET culture has always been to post under your real name, thus attaching
your real photo might just be sensible. It's basically up to what everyone wants
to make of it.
I see my list growing longer and longer ;)
Regards,
Jerry
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| (...) I agree with you here, I have looked into the abyss of madness called MySpace & have gone crazy myself! What I meant to say was "control over JUST the profile page". Agreed, there is a nice established look with LUGNET, that it would be nice (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I know it's bad form to reply to your own post... but another idea would be a updated user profile... I have a web-site, a blog, I'm on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Picasa, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, AIM, Y!M, gTalk, etc. It would be nice to (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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